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Article: Report leaves Hogg with barely a leg to stand on
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 7, 1997
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The right honourable gentleman," the Prime Minister said,
referring to the Leader of the Labour Party in his most exasperated
tones, "has been in Opposition so long that he doesn't understand."
Behind him his colleagues - who have been in power for a very long
time and who understand all too well - nodded in sage agreement.
The particular things that Mr Blair didn't understand were how a
major warning on the dangers of E.coli contamination at abattoirs,
failed to be transmitted to ministers and how an important report
was altered to make criticism of food hygiene less strident.
Professor Sir Hugh Pennington, the head of the group set up to
investigate the Scottish E.coli outbreak, had ...